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Facilities
Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium (M Lacrosse, W Lacrosse)
Arlotta Stadium will become the new home for the Notre Dame men's and women's lacrosse programs upon completion for Fall 2009. Construction on the facility began in August of 2008. The conceptual plans suggest a 2,000-seat, lighted stadium that would include an artificial-turf field, locker rooms, restrooms and concession areas. The lacrosse project is part of the long-term athletics facilities master plan that ultimately will add new stadiums for lacrosse, soccer, track and field, and tennis, plus three relocated football practice fields (two of them artificial turf), all in the area east and southeast of the Joyce Center. Also part of the plan is already completed Melissa Cook Stadium (Softball), as well as, a new rowing boathouse on the St. Joseph River. The state-of-the-art facility is named after Notre Dame graduate John Arlotta, president and chief executive officer of Denver-based Coram Inc. He and his wife, Bobbie, pledged the lead gift toward the stadium to be built to the east of the Joyce Center as part of the University's new athletics quadrangle. The Arlotta children - Mindy, Andy and Jon - also have pledged an additional gift from The Arlotta Family Foundation toward the project. In addition to their generous donation, alumni and friends of the lacrosse programs have donated over two million dollars. The new stadium replaces Moose Krause Stadium where the Irish women's team played for the first 12 years of the program along with indoors at the Loftus Sports Center. |
    
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